The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1926, Page 1

| | { . its. assistance. in fighting his second General. Wood in the. political cant: | " paign, Paguia was charged with sedi- the Standard tor a Workers’ ‘and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 43. In Ghicegs, by ) per year, Outside Chicago, py, $6.00 per year. Subscription Rates: 300 COSSACKS RECRUITED T0 TRAMPLE PASSAIC STRIKERS: 3,000 PICKETS DEFY THREATS ( ~ By J. 0, BENTALL, (Special to The Daily Worker? bd PASSAIC, N. J., March 1.—Three hundred horses have been ordered for the police by the mayor and safety commissioner of Passaic to ride down the strikers, and the strikers have replied that they will answer this threat with a picket line of 3,000 and if necessary they will bring out the entire mass of 12,000 workers that are on strike. This czaristic threat came as “apple pie” after a “feast” around the mayor’s table where “peace and harmony” made up the bill of fare. The mayor of this town, John H. McGuire, in- vited a committee of strikers to talk over the question of a golu- tion to the strike problem, and over three hundred of the strik- ers headed by a committee of > twenty-five with organizer Al- ia bert Weisbord as spokesman EAST, N CHIN met the mayor in his office. f The mayor opened the conference by stating that he “had the welfare of Delegates Present from Most of Industries the community at heart,” and that he By MAX SHACHTMAN, would do everything possible to end the strike. Mayor Has No Plan. When asked what plan he had to offer he said that he wanted the strikers to go back to work and then after everything was peaceful there BELLAIRE, Ohlo, March 1 —Young delegates representing most of the important industries of Eastern Ohio gathered at the Bohemian Halli here to the first American Young Workers’ conference to discuss their problems and draw up a program to outline the would no doubt be a settlement. “Have you no other suggestion to basis of their fight to improve their conditions, offer,” asked Weisbord. The mayor The young delegates, who were Union Wins Wage and Hour Demands (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, March 1, — The Denver Press Assistants’ Union No. 14 has won its demands for a 44-hour week and also an increase in wages. Their new wage scale now is $35 a week. Their working hours were 46 formerly. DEMAND FRENCH CLOSE SHANGHAI OPIUM JOINTS Dives Near Consulate, Is Chinese Claim (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, March 1 — The Anti- Opium Association of China has issued & public statement charging the offi- cials of the French concession with permitting the open and unrestricted sale of opium within its boundaries. ‘The names and addresses of a large number of shops are given, together with the price at which opium was sold on various dates, Thirty-nine of these are located within six blocks of the French municipal and consular buildings. ‘ The statement charges directly that “It is an open secret that a vast opium ring is operating in the French con- cession, debauching the Chinese resi- dents.” The demand is made that the shops be closed immediately and that the opium ring be driven from the protection of the areas in which extra- territoriality rules, Military Despotism — Rules Philippines NEW YORK, March 1.—‘Military despotism is seeking to enthrone it- self in. my country,” asserts Antonio D. Paguia, councilman-elect of Manila, Philippine Islands, in a cable to Amer- ican Civil Liberties’ Union accepting said he had none. He could see noth- ing else that could be done than for the workers to return and then the kindhearted bosses “would settle all right.” “Will the bosses meet with the United Front Committee of Textile Workers and negotiate?” asked Weis- bord again. The mayor said he did not think they would. “Citizen's” Committee Absent. “Where.is the committee of citizens that was to meet here this morning | *lected by factory or mine meetings with you and with us?” was the next }of young workers, came from mines, question. by the spokesman. The |Slass works, can factories, iron works mayor replied that he had no author-jand steel mills. Despite the terror- ity to invite any such committee. “But | sm and reaction which rules in this you had authority to invite us here,| Dart of the country, the delegates hadn't you?” tt Oey nraee at. nference came from Of. course. that, was. different,.ibut | ndustriee aoa ning ousane f he. had no power to tell any other Eastern “Ohio young ere. a body of people that they might come Y, W.,L. Report, and confer with him and the strikers.] The conference got down to busi- “Will you appoint a committee of | ness right in the forenoon and elected citizens or ask some public spirited | its credentials ‘committes under the men to get the others together and jchairmanship of Harvey Murphy. G. meet with us to talk this matter|Papcun {hen teported on the econ- over? Or will you call a mass meet- | omic coriditfons of the young workers ing at which this can be discussed? |in Eastern ‘Olio and pointed out that Or will you ask the chamber of Com- | most of then?’ were working for less merce or the business associations to/than a subsistence. minimum and meet with us?” living under obnoxious conditions, To all these questions the mayor The afternoon session was begun replied that he had no authority and | with a report by the fraternal repres- that we did not understand it all and jentative of .the Young Workers that he had no legal right to ask any- | League, Max Shachtman, who spoke body to do anything, but if the work-|on the geheral situation of the work- ers would only go back it would be |ing class youth in America and the so “very nice,” and he was sure that|job that confronted the conference. was the only thing to do. He pointed out that the drive of the “That would be the worst thing |capitalists to lower the wages and they could do,” Weisbord said. “They | lengthen the working day of the work- have come out only after conditions |ers affected the young workers most (Continued on page 2) seriously, especially since they had % practically no economic or political organization to fight back with, The danger of new wars which was going hand in hand with the campaign to pauperize the youth must be met by decisive action on the part of the young workers. He called upon them to rally the young workers of the rest of the district for the struggle against pauperization and against capitalist militarism, and showed that the Young Workers League was taking the lead in this work, 4 Low Wages of Youth, » The discussion that followed on the part of the delegates proved that the talk about pauperization was no mere phrase, One of the delegates from the Wheeling Can Co. told of the wages being given to the girls there: from 28 to 33 cents an hour, boys get- (Continued on page 2.) conviction for criticizing Governor tion, .Paguia considers “the cayse of constitutional freedom under the Am- erican flag is at stake” in the ‘Philip. | pines and that appealing his, convic- tion will help safeguard constitutional guarantees of free speech and indit vidual liberty, : NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE PROTECTION OF FOREIGN-BORN REPRESENTS 200,000 WORKERS NEW YORK, Mar. 1—At the Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers held in Central Opera House, New York, at which 233 de! 8 were present from local trade unions, fraternal organizations and political parties comprising 79 organizations with membership of over 200,000, the following resolutions were adopted: Plantations Company * Reports Large Profits (Soacial to The Daily Worker) SINGAPORE, March 1.—The Ma- layam Plantations corporation has probably the largest and most varied areas in production of any company in the world, It owns 33 plantations whish covers a total of 27,000 acres or over 42 square miles. These produce tea, rubber, and cardamon (ginger). Over 3,000,000 pounds of tea are raised annually and about the same amount of raw rubber ig produced. New estates are being purchased from time to time so these figures are bound to be increased, Last year’s dividends aggregated 17% per cent. Thus far a 10 per cent ad interim dividend has been paid. This is double that for the correspond- ing time last year, the enoryious in- crease in rubber prices being largely Against Fingerprint Laws, “WHEREAS: The president of the United States, in his message to con- gress urged the adoption of a law or 8 to register and photograph alien idents of the United States; and “WHEREAS: The secretary of the department of labor, Davis, in his re- port recommended-that the bills pro- posed by Representative Aswell, Joharon and otherg having sfonytheir sarpose the enactinent of diserimina- » legislation against aliens. resid- jag in America; and “WHERDAS: how £583, bide sid and Representatives Aswell, Johnson, Me- Clintic and others propose to regis ter, photograph, fingerprint and de- port all foreign-born workers of this country together with other restric- tive and discriminatory clauses and hold over the heads of all foreign-born wor’ the threat of deportation, in- volving separation from their homes and families and in many cases im: prisonment of déath at the hands of the white terror now ‘Trdging ny European and Asiatié tountries such as Poland, Esthonta;'Mungary, Italy, Finland, Roumania,’ Jio-Slavia, In- (Continued: on wuge 6), re: resolutions Nos. 89 su ma ite d by The Petted Favorite of the Bourgeoisie Not the Capitaist Cl eee LOS ANGE BOSSES FEAR STRIKERS’ UNITY Open ‘Shoppers Attack Sympathetic Strike LOS ANGELES, March 1 — The marble workers and tile setters of Los Angeles are on strike for some time. In their desperate’struggle theysfound themselves deserted by the loca! Build- ing Trades Council as well as by the Central Labor Council who did not see fit to render them any assistance. They were forced to fight single hand- ed against the united forces of the Builders Exchange, the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association and the lo- cal press organized and controlled by the local chamber of commerce. In the process of their desperate struggle, they finally succeeded in com- pelling the general executive board of their International to call on the other crafts in their own International in Los Angeles for moral assistance, The plasterers’ and the bricklayers’ unions, which belong to the same Interna- tional, were ordered to quit working with the scabbing marble setters, The plasterers are still. hesitating, but the bricklayers obeyed the instructions and laid down their tools. Try Red’ Scare. nif This incident enraged the forces of the organized opemshoppers in Los Angeles, In a viélent editorial, “The Sympathy Strike” ‘the mouthpiece of the local chamben:of commerce, the Los Angeles Times, declares: “The forces of iadustrial unrest are resorting to their ifavorite device, the sympathy strike,iFor the first time the International Union has taken part. For the firstetime money that might be traced tocthe Third Interna- tional is in circulation in Los Angeles money tainted ‘by innocent blood and sent forth by red-handed murder- ers to corrupt free men and free in- dustry.” The Times goes on to threaten the strikers that: “Los Angeles is the Verdun, the, fortress of industrial liberty, that the forces of labor union tyranny have repeatedly invested, but have never been able to capture.” To frighten the strikers into submis- sion, the scabby Times quotes the of- ficial statement of its masters that: “The Builders Exchange, an organiza- jtion that has functioned successfully here for thirty years, had uttered a rallying cry for the forces of industrial liberty (?).” “Thru its secretary, Paul F. Long- worthy, it has issued jtatement in which the following appears: “In order that the public and the (Continvedtoon page 2) Fr, gy? Second-class matter Septemver 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, lllinols, under the Act =>” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1926 RKER. of March 3, 187% TK. A Sue bncerned About the Reserve Army That Enables ‘to Live in Luxury. NEW YORK EDITION Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORK2ZR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Wasningten Blyd., Chicago, ML BIMBA CASE EXCUSE FOR ATTACK ON FINNISH AND OTHER LANGUAGE | PAPERS BY MINIONS OF REACTION By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Dally Worker) WORCESTER, Mass., March 1—Workers in this textile center are showing a keener interestin the outcome of the Bimba case in Brockton, in which the ‘judge will pronounce judgment tomorrow, than the workers are displaying anywhere else thru- Price 3 Cents ty —\ = ~ = lan Intense Union Organization Drive DENVER, Colo., March 1. — The Leatherworkers’ Union is planning an intense organization drive for the coming month here, The drive will begin with an entertainment and card party at Carpenters’ Hall, March 17. Attempts will be made to organize all of the leatherworkers in the city. EXPECT DAVIS T0 BE A CANDIDATE FOR PA. GOVERNOR out New England. Worcester has watched the trial much more | closely than Brockton itself. It is here in Worcester that Anthony Bimba, the Lithuanian Communist editor of Brooklyn, N. Y., was denied the right to speak on Washington's birthday in Mechanics Hall. It was in the | neighborhood shoe and textile town of Hudson that the catholic priest, Mullen, started a rising ‘flood of malicious propaganda —~* built around the fact that Bimba had officiated at a Hudson fun- PLANS LAID T0 eral, which was dubbed a Com- munist funeral. Even the pre- sence of red flowers at the funeral was made the basis for charges that Moscow influence had been injected ] into the situation here. Another of | Mullen’s charges, that was given wide jcirculation by the local capitalist press, declared that the Communists were conducting a secret school at | Hudson for the special purpose of le eppe |teaching the overthrow of the United | Six Million Dollars fo | states government. It was charged g|that many workers went in secret Be Used from Worcester to Hudson to attend this school. The priest, Mullen, went WASHINGTON, March 1, — The!4 little too far, however, exhausting house appropriations committee has | the credulity of the workers. A can- recommended that $6,000,000 be set Vass of workers here indicates that aside for the purpose of deporting | the general sentiment upholds Bimba's 12,000 aliens from the country during right to say anything he pleased about this year. Reports given to the com-| 0d and religion, and especially about mittee by officials of the department the economic conditions of the work- of labor stressed the fact that about | &rs. 100,000 foreign-born workers had en-/ Fight Language Press. tered the counrty during the past two; Another reason why the clash be- years. The deportation drive being/tween the workers and their ex- carried on in Chicago supposedly) ploiters over the Bimba case is against gunmen was also a factor in|stronger than in Brockton is due to getting the committee to reeommend|the fact that here is located the the deportation fund. powerful Finnish Communist daily, This step of the committee is the | Eteenpain (Forward) with a challeng- outcome of a wide publicity which hasjing influence thruout the entire East been carried on in the press for some |and especially in the New England time past: In. the articles printed \it_mill_and factory centers, When. the wes stated that thoisands of aliens] error reign of the employers’ press who should be deported could not be shipped out of the country because of lack of funds., This publicity was intended to stir up action against the foreign-born workers to which the Coolidge administration is committed. Part of Codlidge Scheme. The effect of the action of the ap- propriations committee and the pub- licity it will receive in the capitalist oress will be to aid the federal gov- rnment to put over the bills against the foreign-born workers now pending in congress. The activity of the fed- eral immigration agents in Chicago is also being carried on for this purpose. The campaign of the Coolidge gov- ernment to terrorize the foriegn-born workers is gaining momentum. De- portation and laws providing for the fingerprinting and registration of all foreign-born workers will be the John hae Lewis Will Aid methods used to intimidate the mil- Mellon’s Choice (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 1—An- nouncement of the candidacy of James J. Davis, secretary of labor, for the governorship of Pennsylvania is expected sometime this week. Secre- lions of foreign-born workers in the country mostly working in the basic industries. Reveal Fake Nature of Bulgar Amnesty BELGRADE, March 1.—The fake tary Davis is non-committal, but says| character of the Bulgarian govern- he may have something to say “in a|ment’s recent amnesty ig shown by. few days.” Davis will enter the race, it is understood, with the backing of} persons the Mellon interests in Keystone poli- tics, Inasmuch as Davis is a close friend of John L. Lewis, head of the miners’ the fact that it releases from jail 1,075. sentenced or awaiting sen- tence under the “Defense of the state” act while 1,083 are excluded. These latter are, as might be expected, those sentenced for the longest terms and union, and is supposed to have been| therefore, precisely. those for whom instrumental in bringing about the re- cent agreement, this announcement may create an embarassing situation for the latter. Governor Pinchot hith- erto has been one of Lewis’ close friends. Lewis has now, however, definitely thrown his support to Davis, Lawrence Workers to Aid Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, N. J., March 1—Mother” Bloor addressed three large mass meetings of Passaic strikers, In spite of the brutal police persecution the workers maintain the greatest solidar- ity and courage, Bloor will go to Lawrence next to make a drive for immediate relief of the Passaic strikers. The united front committee of textile workers is ar- ranging a tag day, mass meeting and noon shop meetings for Bloor and a committee of strikers from Passaic. Locomotive Workers Unemployed. PATERSON, N, J., March 1.—(FP) The 1500 workerg employed by Ame- rican Locomotive Co, Paterson plant are out of work due to, 4 shut-down. The company reports, ity »Montreal | pjant closed earlier, ‘ | the Riffs, amnesty is most needed, The amnesty bill was designed to place the murder government in a favorable light before the people of Surope and thus blind them to the ontinued outrages which still mark its career, Riffs Bombard Spanish Position in Morocco MADRID, March 1—Intensive bom- bardment of the Spanish position at Ajdir, Morocco, has been reopened by The Riffan artillery is av- eraging 600 shots daily, reports from the front state, CONNELSVILLE COKE REGION FOREIGN - BORN was at its height, the Finnish daily considered the question of getting out special editions in English. This plan was abandoned as the situation remedied itself. In addressing the annual meeting of the Eteenpain Co-operative Publishing Co., assembled here in the Finnish Hall, I pointed out the necessity of firmly establishing our English lan- guage Conimunist press, The DAILY WORKER, with the hope of soon starting a Daily Worker in New York City, to cover the east. The Eteenpain has had its own troubles with the protestant clergy, just as the Lithuanian daily, Laisve, has incurred the wrath of the catholic priests. It faces a $15,000 damage suit upheld in the local courts. The delegates to the meeting here un- animously decided to carry this fight thru to the finish, The Finnish workers meeting to plan the building of their press were especially enthusiastic about what I told them of the development of the movement for the protection of the foreign-born workers. They were in- terested in the successful organization of a council Saturday hight in Boston, The effort to suppress freedom of speech in this section of the country, which had its culmination in the Bimba trial, is awakening labor here as never before to new struggles, en- couraged by the haroic example of the 10,000' striking textile Workers ot Passaic, New Jersey, Former Soldiers Hi: Picture of Coolidge (Special to The Daily Worker) SOLDIERS HOME, Calif. — At a showing before the ex-soldiers here of the weekly news reel, the picture of President Calvin Coolidge at his New Year's, reception drew many more hisses from the spectators than ap- plause. The former soldiers have in general little use for the man under whose administration such colossal graft and mismanagement have taken place in the veterans’ bureau and other institutions connected with the care of ex-soldiers, CONFERENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 14 UNIONTOWN, Pa, Mar. 1—The Protection of t! will hold a conference. Sunday March 1 town, Pa. All unions and working cla: Western. Pennsylvania Council for the Foreign-Born Workers, Connelsville coke region branch, 4, 10 a.'m., at the Croation Hall, Union. ss organizations are urged to send two or three delegates to the conference where plans will be laid to combat the bills now in eangress: which are aimed at the foreign-born workers in thie country,